The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-07-28
State Jtems.


Mr.. CHI. Scott and corps are now
engaged in surveying the railroad
from Franklington to Durham.
MI. Mike Woods, for a number of
years the efficient tax collector of
Goldsboro, was found dead in his
room on the morning of July 23d.
In the competitive examination for
the cadetship at West Point held at
Weldon last week, the committee rec
commended to Congressman Simmons
Messrs. Geo. B. Ransom, of New
Berne, and John B. Spellman, of Wei
don, as the most suitable young men
for the appointment. MI. Simmons
decided to appoint Mr.. Ransom, will
MI. Spillman alternate.
The Wilmington Star says: On
Monday night Mrs. Robert Phillips
committed suicide by swallowing two
ounces of laudanum. Mrs. Phillips,
who has been married about six
months, was suffering from a very
painful ailment, and a neighbor, alady,
gave her the usual dose Of laudanum.
She took the bottle home, and about
2 o'clock at night, awoke her husband
and told him that she had taken all
the laudanum. The husband at once
went for a doctor, who did all in his
power to resuscitate her, but it was
too late. 1t is thought the lady was
suffering from melancholia. She was
from Fayetteville.
Greensboro Cor. News and Observer:
The Guilford county Teachers Insti-
tute .conyenes here "Wednesday the
25th inst, with Prof. W. A. Blair, of
Winston, as Principal and Prof. G. P.
Frazier, of Archdale, as assistant.
The institute has been held here for
years and is always we'll attended and
an occasion of much interest.--The
board of aldermen last night granted
the right of way to DR.. ]. W. Griffith
to establish a street railway. DR..
Griffith has made estimates and ex-
poets to begin work at an early day.
The board also closed a contract with
E. W. Bowditch, engineer of Boston,
to make a survay for the city water
works at a cost of $l,250.
Charlotte Chronicle: Will Grow, the
negro who shot into the pay train on
the Carolina Central road on June
18th, To- reposes in jail at Monroe.
MY. w. D. Alexander, a we'll
known farmer of Mecklenburg, is
meeting with good success in the sale
of his Henry oats, and the farmers
who have tested the oats, speak very
highly of the results. Maj. Jas. G.
Harris, in giving his experience says
that the Henry Oats gave him more
satisfaction than any he has ever sown.
He sows ten bushels of Henry oats on
five acres of land, which was fairly
good soil, having yielded a good corn
crop the previous year, No manure
was used and from the ten bushels, he
threshed $50 bushels. Mr.. R. W.
Wallace did the threshing. This is a
good yield. .na -, i
Greensboro Morning Nears: Mr.. P.
D. Price, who went to Raleigh a few.
days ago in company with other gen.
tlemen to negotiate with the authori-
ties of the penitentiary with regard to
the employment of ~convicts to build
the Madison branch of the Cape Fear
and Yadkin Valley Railroad, informs
us that it is the wish and intention of
those who have subscribed to the en-
terprise to have the road built by con-
tract instead of employing a number
of convicts to do the work. Mr..
Price says a committee will be sent
from the penitentiary to this place
August 18th and will be taken over
the line of the, proposed route when
propositions will be made for the work.
Mr.. Price is hopeful for an early com
pletion, of the road. When this is
completed, Greensboro wi11have eight
lines of ingress and egress.
Piedmont Press: The question
whether the Cooperative Workers of
America is a political society, forbid